into the drink

Idioms  

1. Into the water, especially the ocean. For example, One more wave and I thought I'd fall off the boat into the drink. [Slang; c. 1830]

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into the drink

He and business partner Bardy Bayram briefly tossed up working noodles and coconut milk into the drink somehow, but decided floaties and a creamy flavour would probably be a bridge too far.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023

“It's not a common move,” he says, because it can send bits of herbs or fruit into the drink, causing it to look “frothy, cloudier and chaotic in the glass.”

From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2023

Otherwise, there’s the disaster of having half a biscuit disappear into the drink.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022

Pinch the orange peel over the drink to release the oils, then let it sink into the drink.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2021

Cleopatra dropped the earring into the drink and swirled it until the pearl dissolved.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby